A wanderer is man from his birth. He was born in a ship On the breast of the river of Time.
MATTHEW ARNOLDTime may restore us in his course Goethe’s sage mind and Byron’s force: But where will Europe’s latter hour Again find Wordsworth’s healing power?
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Now the great winds shoreward blow Now the salt tides seaward flow Now the wild white horses play Champ and chafe and toss in the spray.
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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
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Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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Ah! two desires toss about The poet’s feverish blood; One drives him to the world without, And one to solitude.
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Nor bring, to see me cease to live, Some doctor full of phrase and fame, To shake his sapient head, and give The ill he cannot cure a name.
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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
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Culture being a pursuit of our total perfection by means of getting to know, on all the matters which most concern us, the best which has been thought and said in the world.
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Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.
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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence.
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For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment.
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It is – last stage of all When we are frozen up within, and quite The phantom of ourselves To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost Which blamed the living man
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